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Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2020

2020, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2020 covers 184 countries. Hong Kong is highest, at 174.375; Sudan is lowest, at 4.830. The middle country reads 38.052. Against 2019, 183 values changed (30 up, 153 down), 1 country joined.

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Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP) · Data for 2020

HighestHong Kong

174.375

LowestSudan

4.830

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2020, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 184 countries · select a heading to sort

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2020: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Hong KongHKGEastern Asia174.375
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe171.144
3SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia149.901
4San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe140.424
5IrelandIRLNorthern Europe118.969
6MaltaMLTSouthern Europe112.407
7DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa108.610
8LesothoLSOSouthern Africa96.648
9American SamoaASMPolynesia95.146
10NauruNRUMicronesia91.397
11SeychellesSYCEastern Africa86.937
12SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe83.236
13United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia83.219
14PalauPLWMicronesia81.109
15CyprusCYPWestern Asia81.021
16VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia78.864
17BelgiumBELWestern Europe77.753
18HungaryHUNEastern Europe76.439
19United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean75.290
20Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia72.338
21MicronesiaFSMMicronesia71.064
22NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe70.992
23North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe70.470
24ArubaABWCaribbean69.438
25SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe69.277

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Hong Kong174.375
  2. 2Luxembourg171.144
  3. 3Singapore149.901
  4. 4San Marino140.424
  5. 5Ireland118.969

Lowest

  1. 184Sudan4.830
  2. 183Cuba7.515
  3. 182United States13.017
  4. 181Turkmenistan13.037
  5. 180Venezuela13.085

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 38.052. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 183values changed, of 183 in both
  • 30 · 153rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Afghanistan

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2020.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 184 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2020). Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/imports-to-gdp/2020

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07Questions

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Imports as a share of GDP in Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2020?

Hong Kong, at 174.375, of the 184 countries in the file.

What year does Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2020 cover?

184.

Where can I download Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2020?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2020 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2025.

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